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Enterprise Architecture, where is it going? |
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Adrian Grigoriu
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Saturday, 22 December 2007 |
This is a legitimate question. Is Enterprise Architecture going anywhere? In my view it is, albeit slowly in the absence of a definite framework and proof of its business case. EA is a necessary "evil" though. Any system needs a streamlined structure and a blueprint to enable proper operation, maintenance, planning... To provide benefits needs to satify its many stakeholders in top management, business, IT and other technologies, organization... A few directions I can see Enterprise Architecture progressing, in no particular order:
- the EA evolves to cover increasingly the business architecture rather than IT alone; the Enterprise Architecture will be ultimately the result of the fusion of IT, Business and Organization/People architecture; what is the the value of an applications architecture, without the process or people ownership views?
- the governance for EA will be more & more business and top management heavy; this is because it would be used in mapping the strategy to components, to derive the enterprise transformation portfolio, make investments and take strategic and tactical decisions
- the EA will be increasingly triggered by Mergers & Acqusitions and outsourcing activities, including of the IT
- the Enterprise Architect role would be more and more called in the business decision making process
- a combined EA framework emerges to take advantage of strengths of various frameworks, such as Zachman, TOGAF, FEA and others
- SOA becomes part of the EA program as the target EA style of architecture and technology
- EA would be increasingly required by shareholders/owners to provide the blueprint of the business operation, describe assets, provide proof of regulatory compliance and map costs and profits on various operations
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